Three days before the wedding in canterlot

Sombra awoke to a blast of cold air sweeping over him. He shivered and realized what had happened; the spell Celestia had used was only good for 1000 years! He chided himself for thinking the princesses would ever find a permanent solution to any problem that they had to solve themselves. He checked his surroundings to find that he was in a cave, with no bears or dragons in it. When he approached the mouth of the cave, he saw a dead equestrian explorer, a unicorn in fact. Sombra took the explorer's goggles and coat to keep warm, and thanked the unfortunate soul by burying her and leaving an enchanted grave marker. He decided it was high time to go home to his castle and maybe even see his wife.

On the way to his empire, Sombra was attacked by Windigos. He didn't have time for this! He had to be in the Crystal Empire before Celestia sent anypony who could come up with a permanent solution. The three Windigos charged him and Sombra decided that the best course of action was to dodge them, so he jumped up about twenty feet in the air. As he dodged, he heard something strange from the blizzard spirits "I hate you", "Why did you leave us?", and finally "Help me".

As Sombra fell down to earth he realized the origin of the Windigos, they were three of his royal guard. He knew now that he needed to end their suffering. He decided on the spell he would use, channel sunlight, to end their suffering quickly without pain. The moment he landed he channeled sunlight into the three Windigos and watched them dissipate.

He looked upon them "I'm sorry, my loyal subjects, I shall avenge you."

He continued to make his to the Empire when he saw a strange sight; A team from the Equestrian Vanguard. It consisted of two unicorns, two pegasai, two griffons, and one dragon. He came upon the revelation that they were heading to the Empire, and he need to stop them, lest Celestia get a foothold on his Empire. He teleported himself in front of the Vanguard and summoned multiple weapons of ice.

The Unicorn officer in charge of the Vanguard commanded a full halt, then he yelled "Get the buck out of the way you daft foal!"

Sombra smiled, he just got the provocation needed. "This is my empire, and I'm certainly not daft, now bow your head when you speak to an Archmage!" he said as he threw an icy bastard sword at the officer.

The officer sidestepped only to witness the other unicorn in the group get decapitated. The officer looked upon his dead comrade and realized who it was; his younger brother. He turned towards Sombra and said in anger "Pegesai; ready your javalins, Griffons; provide support fire. I'm going to have this bastard's head on a pike"

The dragon turned towards his commanding officer "What should I do?"

"Provide heavy damage on this bastard"

"Got it"

Sombra found that he had hit the mark; he got the officer to lose his cool. That was the only advantage he needed as he jumped up in the air and used arcane blast on the pegesai to great effect. One of the Griffons aimed his rifle at Sombra and started firing.

Sombra used his time slow spell on the bullets and used a time forward spell on himself and ran across the bullets towards the courageous Griffin, as the other one had began to run. He summoned a halberd and cut the griffin in half using it. Then he heard a shout behind him. Sombra turned and saw the officer charging him.

Sombra decided that he was feeling extra sadistic today and enchanted his hooves with his anti-magic spell. He tackled the officer whilst screaming "UUURRRYYYYY!"

The officer made the mistake of attempting to block Sombra's attack, and he paid dearly. Anti-magic crystals covered his entire body and cut deep into his skin and muscle. Sombra then hit the officer with an uppercut, sending the frozen unicorn into the air. He eyed his falling opponent "Fool! You thought that you could defeat an Archmage? Face the cold embrace of oblivion!" Sombra shouted as he shattered the foolish officer like glass.

He turned towards his final opponents, the cowardly griffin and the dragon. As he went to fight them, he doubled over and vomited blood. "Damned dark magic, I need to finish this quickly. I need my Empire back, the changelings have probobly infiltrated Equestria by now." Sombra muttered as he created ice daggers.

The dragon stared at this supposed 'Archmage', this. . . . abomination in pony form. Maybe he could just overwhelm the stranger with force? No harm in trying he thought as he swung his greatsword at Sombra.

Sombra got up from his doubled over position and kicked the dragon's greatsword away. "Useless!" and the last word the dragon's ears ever caught were "Time slows to a crawl"

He looked around and saw that the griffin that was trying to run away was in throwing dagger range. He smiled with contempt for the cowardly beast and loosed eighteen daggers in it's direction "They say the first one cuts the deepest! And that's plenty of firsts"

He realized that he only had five of his seven seconds left, so he turned his attention to the dragon. Then he thought of something genius and sadistic that wouldn't cause him much strain.

The dragon suddenly heard the sound of his failure of a teammate in pain. Whatever had happened had happened fast. The dragon saw an ice crystal drop past his head, then he dared to look up.

Sombra brought a massive ice crystal with the dragon's greatsword down on the dragon's head. There was a sickening crunch as Sombra walked towards the Crystal Empire, still in his disguise.

Author's Note

Fight Scene translation:
"Muda da"
"MUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDA"
"Za WURDO!"
"Time stands still!"
*self insert steamroller*
"WRRRYYYYYYYYYY"
Anyhow, it's nice to see this fic doing well after just the prologue was published
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